Any second / Kevin Emerson.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 392 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780553534825
- 0553534823
- 9780553534832
- 0553534831
- 9780553534856
- 0553534858
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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YA Book | Main Library | YA Fiction | Emerson, Keith | Available | 33111009134541 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Marieke Nijkamp's This is Where it Ends meets Kathleen Glasgow's Girl in Pieces in a gripping novel that explores the depths of trauma and the strength it takes to rise again. Perfect for readers of Ellen Hopkins .
Five years after being kidnapped, Elian's captor sends him into the mall--with a bomb strapped to his chest.
Across the mall is Maya, a girl whose crippling anxiety holds her prisoner in its own way.
Whether it's chance or fate, Maya keeps Eli from ending them all. And now nothing is the same. Drawn together by their dark pasts, Maya and Eli know it takes only seconds for their entire worlds to change. But time will tell if meeting each other will change them for better or worse.
"A riveting novel about the capacity for hope in the midst of evil." - Sara Zarr, National Book Award finalist
Kidnapped, abused, and brainwashed for five years, Elian is stopped in his mission to bomb a mall by Maya, who has crippling anxiety, and neither one will ever be the same again.-- Provided by Publisher.
Five years ago Elian was kidnapped. Physically and emotionally abused, brainwashed, now his captor sends him into the mall-- with a bomb strapped to his chest. Across the mall is Maya, a girl whose crippling anxiety holds her prisoner in its own way. When Maya keeps Eli from detonating the bomb, nothing is the same. They are drawn together by their dark pasts-- and only time will tell if meeting each other will change them for better or worse. -- adapted from Amazon.com info